Wizz Air increases number of flights to European cities, wins prestigious award

We wrote that the Hungarian low-cost airline opened two new routes to Egypt. From October, you can travel with Wizz to Cairo and Sharm el-Sheikh. However, the budget airline announced there would be other European destinations where they will increase flight frequency in the winter season.

According to Budflyer, a Hungarian travel news Facebook page, Wizz Air will expand the number of flights to Istanbul and Liverpool in December. That means there will be three flights weekly to Liverpool from Budapest Airport. The new flight will take off on Mondays. Moreover, they will also increase flight frequency on the Budapest-Istanbul line. Flights will double from December in that direction, and the planes will take off on Wednesdays and Sundays. Wizz Air is to add extra evening flights on those days to the morning ones.

It seems Istanbul and Liverpool are both popular among passengers travelling from Budapest. The former might be because of the developing Turkish-Hungarian economic relationship, while the latter’s cause is the growing number of Hungarian guest workers in the United Kingdom.

According to Világgazdaság, despite the ongoing Israeli-Palestine war in the Middle East, Wizz Air’s traffic grew in October. Passenger traffic increased by 19.4% last month. More than 5.4 million people chose to travel with the Hungarian low-cost airline in October. The flight utilisation reached 92.5%.

The good numbers came after Wizz Air had to suspend all its flights to Israel until 15 November because of the ongoing war in the Gaza district.

The airline announced that from next summer, it begins to expand its key markets in Italy, Romania, and Albania. They will increase flight frequency to Rome and Milan and place four new Airbus A321neo planes in the Italian capital and the North Italian city. HERE we wrote about Wizz’s new Egyptian flights.

Wizz Air won prestigious award again

Furthermore, Bucharest will get two new neo planes from June just like Tirana. The eighth modern jet will go to Gdansk in Poland from April.

From November, they will launch new flights to Glasgow from Budapest and Bucharest, serving guest workers from the region. Moreover, new flights will serve people travelling from Debrecen International Airport to Rome, Fiumicino from December.

The company’s carbon dioxide emission was 5% lower this October than in 2022 October. Furthermore, the value of their shares rose by 3.6% in London.

According to MTI, Wizz Air won the title of Global Environmental Sustainability Airline Group of the Year for the second time from the CAPA (Centre for Aviation) in Kuala Lumpur. CAPA awards those airlines that focus on reducing their carbon emission and pay attention to climate change in their business policies. Wizz Air operates one of the world’s youngest fleets and is replacing its old jets with Airbus A321neo planes, which are much more sustainable. Moreover, the airline already has a Sustainable Aircraft Fuel (SAF) strategy. CEO József Váradi said they would like to reduce their carbon emission by 25% by 2030. Wizz Air’s fleet currently includes 189 Airbus A320 and A321 planes.

We wrote about the Hungarian Competition Authority’s new investigation against Wizz Air HERE.

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